Space Safari 2015

Edu Mithra Space Safari

An Exploratory Voyage For Knowledge!

Come, join us in exploratory voyage into the Mysterious dark world: the Space!

Learn from experts, experience the best of learning and reward your passion to space science with the amazing technical sessions, interactive sessions with legends, hands on workshops, and exciting sky watch sessions with tools u have never used with!

Edu Mithra presents Space Safari, a two-day residential camp for children enthusiastic about space science and technology to nurture and enhance their interests in space science and related fields and ultimately guide them to come out with flying colors in their fields of passion.

Space Safari will inspire curiosity and build confidence in students of all levels through the uniquely designed package consisting of a variety of workshops on space science with the highly qualified experts and legends of the fields.

So why wait?

Come ,join us in the voyage of fun, knowledge and never before experiences!!

What space safari gives to your child…

Cultivates genuine interest in Space science and nurtures the inborn passion in the space science fields.

Rare chance of experiencing the experiments that they have only seen/read in text books and meeting legends of the Space Science and experience new ways of exploring Space science.

The positive experiences associated with Space Safari that emphasize personal skill development that everyone needs, including the ability to make decisions, self-confidence, personal communication, and the development of a richer more valuable profile.

Greater understanding of Space Science and its possibilities

New friends and new memories they will remember and value throughout their lives and a new experience of living in a green eco-friendly atmosphere, far from the busy disturbing city life.

Camp Dates: August 8 & 9, 2015

Last Date of Registration : 31st July 2015

Space Safari Highlights

Space safari will bring together the experts of the space science field from both the fields of space science and technology to give your child a never before experience of learning. The workshops and other informative sessions will help the astronomer in your child’s dreams to come out into reality!

Interactive and Technical Talk sessions with:

1. Dr. Venkita Krishnan Iyar

The session will bring together the young aspirants and Prof. Venkita Krishna Iyar, the person who prepares a catalyst that adjusts the burning rate of the fuel in the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles (PSLV) that launches satellites.

Prof Venkite Krishnan Iyar is a great scientist of the ISRO, who is behind the preparation of a Fuel catalyst that ignites all the mission of ISRO ranging Up to Mangalyan. Graduating with a degree in Chemistry from Government Victoria College in 1964, Prof. Venkata Krishnan joined the Scientist Training Course in the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC) the same year. After the course he joined the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, Thiruvananthapuram as a scientist.

2. Prof. K Papootty

Prof. K Papootty well-known science writer, Director of The State Institute of Encyclopaedic Publications, Editor of EUREKA and Former HOD, Dept. Physics Govt. College Madappally.

3. Dr. Krishna Warrier

Dr, Krishna Warrier is the president of AASTRO, Trivandrum Unit and a well-known figure of the space science field with great experiences in space observations. He has been to almost all of the space observatories in India and has great passion to the field of space science and technology and that makes him so much eligible to interact with our young aspirants to ignite the fire in them.

4. Dr. N Shaji

Dr. N Shaji is a well experienced professor of physics at Maharaja’s college, Cochin with a life dedicated to space science and he bags the experience of many years in taking classes in space science to students of all ages. He is a well-known personality among the space science aspirants all over India.

5. Sreejith E S

Mr. Sreejith E SCompleted his M. Tech in Instrumentation and Applied Physics from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has around 8 years of teaching and research experience. He has published papers in several peer-reviewed National and International journals and he is An expert in giving invited talks in different areas of engineering and applied physics as well as in conducting technical quizzes. Currently working as Asst. Prof. Electronics and Instrumentation dept., FISAT, Angamaly.

5. Space Science software workshop & Sky watch sessions

It’s always fun and exciting to go closer to the heavenly bodies. Space safari gives an opportunity to observe the sky with high end telescopes, instruments and advanced software tools which will be a new and never before experience to students.

A Little About The Venue

Looking over the life giving waters of the Chalakkudy River, Moozhikkulamsala is situated in Moozhikkulam, a village of great historical background for its educational centers, in Ernakulam District of Kerala. It has a premise of 2.40 acres of area which consists of 22 Nalukkettus, traditional Kerala style homes. The remarkable feature of these buildings is their eco-friendliness. The Jaiva campus is well protected and its our previllage tohave Moozhikkulam Shala as our venue for Space Safari.

The location near the Chalakkudi River and the calm and beautiful atmosphere makes a perfect platform for a pleasureful learning experiences!

Registration:

Accommodation+food charges extra :Rs.350/day (including river side stay calm n quiet atmosphere away from the hustles and bustles of the city life )

We welcome parents!

Parents can also accompany their children in the camp by paying an accommodation and food charge of Rs. 1000/- for two days (Payable at venue) . The camp will be as enjoyable to the Parents as to the children.